Media

The Australian Football League will cut coverage of the 2001 pre-season Ansett Cup by half to avoid over-exposure. The Seven Network Limited will televise only 14 out of 27 games.

Costa Rica has set itself up as the offshore gambling capital of the world with large quantities of US cash entering the country in the lead up to the start of the American football season

The fabled Montreal Canadiens, the hockey team that has won more Stanley Cup championships than any other, has drawn the attention of several would-be buyers since brewer Molson Inc. put the team up for sale last month.

The 2001 British Speedway Grand Prix will be held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Sportasia.com, the Asian internet sports content producer, syndicator and distributor, has appointed Ikuya Tanaka of Dentsu?s Sports Marketing Division as a board director.

The Chinese national volleyball association has decided to loosen its grip on China?s volleyball clubs by offering them the opportunity to run their own league matches.

Littlewoods Leisure are to launch a new #2million top prize football pools service, which viewers will be able to access via their ordinary television remote controls

Ticketmaster, a division of USA Networks's Information and Services unit, has purchased Essential Data Control Systems (EDCS) by acquiring the majority of the company's assets, including the Fan Loyalty System.

Baseball owners will meet in New York tomorrow to receive the much-anticipated report from their latest economic study committee.

Website Internetsoccer.com is to broadcast live audio ? via the web ? of the US national soccer team?s first World Cup qualifying game for the 2002 Finals.

SportsYA! the Spanish and Portugese-language sports portal has secured a capital investment of $11million in its latest round of financing.

Sportel, the international meeting place for the television distribution and programming market, is expanding its outreach to new media and advertising companies for SPORTEL's 11th International Sports Television Convention, to be held in Monte Carlo November 5-8, 2000.

Former London Metropolitan police chief Paul Condon has been appointed to head the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption body set up to eradicate match-fixing from the game.

Scottish soccer giants, Glasgow Rangers, are planning to switch from the junior Ofex market to a main stock exchange listing, according to UK media reports.

Two major European broadcasters are using virtual graphics provided by Symah Vision to enhance their coverage of Euro 2000.

Octagon CSI?s international television rights contract with the Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH) has been extended up until 2004.